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Ecosystem Services and U.S. Stormwater Planning

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An Approach for Improving Urban Stormwater Decisions

This article in the journal Environmental Science and Policy presents an ecosystem services framework for assessing the context-specific needs of decision makers while considering the strengths and limitations of greenwater infrastructure use in urban stormwater management. It describes multiple dimensions of the planning system, identifies points of intervention, and illustrates two applications of our framework—in Durham, North Carolina, and Portland, Oregon. [Read more…] about Ecosystem Services and U.S. Stormwater Planning

News for Paramos Biodiversity and Water Resources Project

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The Alexander von Humboldt Research Institute on Biological Resources is currently coordinating the Paramos Biodiversity and Water Resources Project. This project that started in December 2014 and will finish in November 2019 is financed by the European Union and has an overall budget of 6.25 Million Euros. [Read more…] about News for Paramos Biodiversity and Water Resources Project

PhD vacancy: Local-scale Biodiversity Responses to Global Change. Deadline 29 August

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Biodiversity is facing increasing anthropogenic pressures, including climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, overharvesting, and invasive species establishment. While it is clear that global biodiversity is declining, responses of local assemblages are less well understood.

In this PhD project, you will be quantifying the effects of various anthropogenic pressures on local-scale biodiversity worldwide. [Read more…] about PhD vacancy: Local-scale Biodiversity Responses to Global Change. Deadline 29 August

Issues to address in Brazilian biodiversity and ecosystem services

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Brazilian Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BPBES) embraces currently five Thematic Assessments: Pollination, pollinators and food production, Indigenous people and Traditional communities, Climate change, Water and Ecosystem services restoration.

Inspired by the positive results of the thematic reports produced by the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), BPBES also supports and encourages the production of documents focusing on relevant issues to biodiversity and ecosystem services. [Read more…] about Issues to address in Brazilian biodiversity and ecosystem services

Ecosystem Services and Judge-Made Law: A Review of Legal Cases in Common Law Countries

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This article in the journal Ecosystem Services reviews the prevalence and usage of the concept of ecosystem services in American and other common law legal systems. It suggests that this concept is rarely relied on by courts and other adjudicatory bodies. [Read more…] about Ecosystem Services and Judge-Made Law: A Review of Legal Cases in Common Law Countries